i bought SerpScraper 2.0 from Syndik8 to test and compare it with outer harvesters i also have (scrapebox, hrefer, scrapegenius) and wont give a little review here on BHW.

First i want to say, iam a advanced harvester user, i have multiple (about 30) privat paid proxies and "enough" footprints for all kind of script and software out there to be able to make a review on that kind of software.

I started with Serpscraper last 2 days and tested it with some Keywords:

Footprint: "Powered by Pligg" ; Additional Words: 5 well distinguishable Words (Finance,Sports,Insurance,Wellness,Food), so it would harvest "powered by Pligg"+Finance as one query and so on > Google.com (Hits by Google in summary: 6,149,600) ; Results bye serpscraper: 481 scraped URLs!!!, after remove duplicate hosts 290 URLs!!!

Footprint: "Powered by Pligg" ; Additional Words: 5 well distinguishable Words (Finance,Sports,Insurance,Wellness,Food) > Bing.com: 0 Results [maybe i was to lazy to fix the broken bing.xml, but for a new software i could expect a running bing.xml]

Footprint: "Powered by Pligg" ; Additional Words: 5 well distinguishable Words (Finance,Sports,Insurance,Wellness,Food) > Yahoo.com:0 Results [maybe i was to lazy to fix the broken yahoo.xml, but for a new software i could expect a running yahoo.xml]

My conclusion:
The scraper is worth the money (Yeah you hear right!!!), but only for the bonus functions other scrapers doesn't have!

Goods

That means you can build your own searchengine xml for every searchengine out there and harvest from it, thats a Big Plus,

and you can check URL-Lists for Footprints on the page with Serpscraper, thats also a big plus.

[TLD-Filter, Remove Duplicate Hosts or URls, trim to root, Sort or Slpitt Lists, Remove 404 (dead urls) are standard and all the other scrapers have it to, no plus!]

Bads

Its a god damn bad scraper! I tested it out cause i want to scrape more than 1000 results on a single query (cause my favorite harvester scrapebox only search 1000 maximum for one query), what i get was a little tool harvesting the first 2 pages on every query, nothing more. On my Defintion this is not a Scraper! Sure you can harvest 100.000 Urls (also with serpscraper) with a good additional wordlist, but why? with the same queries i get 1.000.000 if i use scrapebox or 500.000 if i use scrapegenius.

you said that you are an advanced harvester, but you don't know anything about the 1000 limitation entries from search engine ?

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Thats embarrassing you are right, shame on me, i dont know about the 1000 limitation in the organic serps (yahoo siteexplorer 4 sure), but that makes no difference that iam an advanced user ;-Þ (no pro), cause the real skill is to find the best footprints and use the right operators in combination.

Everyone is learning . So iam on start point, knew about to stay there, cause we need to use additional words to scrape beyond the 1000.

I will vote for Scrapbox, its better than hrefer i think and cheaper ;-).

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then you have obviously no idea what you are talking about. yes scrapebox is nice for beginners, but hrefer is way more advanced and better coded.
and just for the record all syndk8 products are shit. just overhyped crap that doesnt work properly. they say its because the people are too stupid to use it,
but fact is, non of the tools from syndk8 work as expected and keep crashing as the developers are amateurs.

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